Montezuma County News

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Brent Jeffs, a nephew of Mormon fundamentalist Warren Jeffs, was ejected from the church in his teen years.

Affordable-housing projects across Colorado are stalled because the investor market for low-income housing tax credits has dried up.

Montezuma County's commissioners have turned down a proposal to build a disposal facility for oil-and-gas drilling waste adjacent to a national monument and irrigated farm fields.

An Arizona woman has died after her inflatable raft overturned in high water on the Upper Dolores River in southwest Colorado.

In the tidy green swaths of alfalfa, beans and wheat carpeting western Montezuma County, it is easy to overlook a sagebrush-studded field along the Canyons of the Ancients National Monument.

A Cortez woman attacked by two pit bulls survives. The Montezuma County Sheriff's Office said Nancy Thomas went to visit her friend, Jonathan Wilson, on CR 29 outside of Cortez Wednesday morning.

A 45-year-old man is presumed dead after his canoe capsized in the Dolores River on Friday evening.

Hundreds of mountain-bike enthusiasts will converge on May 9 for the 3rd annual "12 Hours of Mesa Verde" bike race, which will take place on the increasingly popular trail system in Cortez known as Phil's World.

A Montezuma County man has been arrested following a one-vehicle crash that killed his passenger.

A wet April has chased away drought conditions across Colorado, but farmers still hope for a bit more moisture.

About 30 percent of doctors in the United States would choose a different profession if they could start over immediately.

A court hearing for a Montezuma County man accused of killing his father and feeding parts of the corpse to coyotes has been rescheduled.

A 50-year-old Cortez man, previously convicted of felony possession of drugs, was sentenced today to seven years in prison for turning his home into a weapons armory of 59 firearms that included stolen semiautomatics.

Dolores County Sheriff Jim Martin said Thursday that the main force behind the plot, a 16-year-old, also planned to shoot his principal of Dove Creek High School and Martin's undersheriff, then use the law enforcement officers' weapons to continue shooting.

State health officials Tuesday ordered a Montrose dairy to stop distributing its raw milk after 11 Western Slope residents reported being infected with campylobacter in a little more than a week.

Lynette Kerrigan with her former preschool students. The word 'inspire' is seldom listed in a job description.

A driver accused of spinning doughnuts on a Colorado high school football field and crashing into the empty bleachers drew a penalty flag from police.

A driver accused of spinning doughnuts on a Colorado high school football field and crashing into the empty bleachers drew a penalty flag from police.

A driver who had a seizure before crashing into a motorcycle and killing the two people on it was sentenced to probation and community service.